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EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… Committee was born in Moruleng, Rustenburg district. His teaching career started in the Orange Free State in 1935. … area covering the Potchefstroom and…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… huts. On the 22nd of September 1828, Shaka was killed by his two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangane and his servant, Mbhopa. A memorial stone was erected…
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… South Africa. Though the apartheid government restricted his movements, Luthuli was granted special permission in 1961 to attend the award ceremony in Oslo,…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… Department of Transport (DoT). During the years prior to his appointment as minister, he had been an activist, a … was investigating him for corruption and…
EventDick King returns home after securing help for Port Natal
… Philip) returned to Port Natal on board the Conch after his heroic rescue operation. King, accompanied by his young after-rider Ndongeni as far as Pondoland,…
EventBarry Hough, SA literary critic and successful author of mainly teenage books is found dead
… other books that would prove to be more successful than his debut novel. Hough was found dead in his flat in Melville, Johannesburg on 17 August 2004. His…
EventAhmed Helmy, Egyptian actor, is born
… Ahmed Helmy was born on 18 November 1969 in Banha, Egypt. His career as an actor began when Sherif Arafa noticed Helmy in a children’s programme and was…
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
… the US. Macala’s chosen technique was pastel on paper, and his work has come to be recognized by this medium. He has used other media from time to time. His…
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… Van der Bijl was born into a very influential family as his father was a produce merchant and a property investor who … inexpensive power to South Africa…
EventPaul Adams, former South African cricket player, is born
… only when cricket player and Coach Eddie Barlow recognized his bowling talent that his career took off. Barlow helped place Adams in the Western … province B…
PlaceRepublic of Congo
… Conference in Accra in December 1958, which encouraged his becoming radical. Nkrumah assured Lumumba that he had the support of the rest of Africa in his…
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
… Maivha of the PAC of Azania. My brother Thabo Ngoepe and his wife. All Mourners. Comrades and Friends. Let me start … Cde Esau Mokhethi. I never had the…
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… , fleeing religious persecution in their own country. On his arrival he acquired a piece of land for farming by the … Mountains . He was the first to cross…
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement that his Government had decided to summon a conference … we understand this move? Does it mean that…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement that his Government had decided to summon a conference … we understand this move? Does it mean that…
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
… he also had a tender side. That was mostly reserved for his beloved wife, Lorraine, and his sons, Matthew and Jerome, and their families. But those … to…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… lot of support from Mahatma Gandhi, who had already begun his campaign of passive resistance against racism. E.S. REDDY … Transvaal went to prison. He had…
How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016
… he was not obliged to do so. He said in paragraph 3 of his answer that‚ “I wish to co-operate fully with any … Hawks were investigating charges against the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… Nkurunziza was stuck in Dar es Salaam tweeting up a storm, his former intelligence chief was busy taking over the … Godefroid Niyombare. “President…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… to issue him a phony passport is lost to history. In his recollections, he simply notes: “I crossed the border … in English by a Black South African, Mhudi…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… now the Slave Lodge and the caricature on the pediment is his little dig at the hostilities between the French and the … it here because every time the…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… the persona of her husband, and this merging lasts beyond death. A dutiful wife (patrivrata) worships her husband, regardless of his worth or character, as…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… had put much pressure on the Mthethwa, resulting in the death of Dingiswayo and the scattering of his forces. Earlier historical explanations of change ……
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… on its racial segregation policy and related matters. His attack came at the height of anti-Government rioting in … who are deprived of so many rights…
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
… exposed the existence of the unit he once led. Fearing for his life, he fled to Zambia. When a package disguised as … As soon as he pressed play, after…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… that led to Kissinger's going ahead with the meeting, was his intention of seeing whether South Africa would be willing … Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith…
EventMax the gorilla is shot
… as he grappled with a fleeing armed robber who jumped into his zoo enclosure. The suspect, Isaac Mofokeng, ducked inside … Max, by now enraged, bit Constable…
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… Orange Free State. Geldenhuys earned acclaim for his diplomatic and negotiating skills in South West Africa … in the murders of activists Dr Fabian Ribeiro…
EventThe United Nations (UN) imposes sanctions on Libya
… al-Megrahi, was released from prison in Scotland. Upon his return he received a hero’s welcome from his countrymen at Tripoli Airport.In February 2011, after…